whale and wool

Wants to cry a little right now since I just typed a huge post and my crazy laptop decided to die before I posted it :( So gonna keep take two short and sweet! Got part two of one of our projects last week(part one was materials and i had WOOL) . We each had to pick a foodstuff out of a hat (graphics are pretty keen on getting us to do that but I like it because we all end up with something we probably wouldnt have chose oursleves - keeps it interesting!) As you can guess the foodstuff werent your everyday kind of foods, I ended up with WHALE. I wasnt overly enthusiastic about it at first because being a vegetarian im not too keen on researching into how animals are killed for food, its not normally something I would look into. Im really getting into it though and I find it so interesting that some nations are repulsed by the thought of eating whale but for example in Japan eating whale meat isnt completly uncommon and as it says in the brief "one person's delicacy, someone else's poison". It is horrible though how these beautiful animals are being killed in their thousands when their meat could be easily subsituted by beef or pork - which is readily available without affecting the existance of the animals. Im trying to cover the topis from many angles as I can in the time we have (which isnt much considering it is one of 5 briefs we have running at once!) including history, culture, nutritional information, whaling, art, packaging - to give myself plently to work from for part 3! :)